Now, there are two simple ways to get an idea of what your ultimate ROI will be.

ROI projection strategies

The first one is comparing it to similar Adwords costs.

The second is an estimation of new revenue from this exposure.

ROI Calculation #1: Adwords comparison

Let’s take 2760 (searches a month) and take 10% of it. This assumes that after you’re placed optimally on page 1 for these keywords, 10% of all the people searching for these terms will land on your website.

10% of 2760 equals 276.

Then multiply 276 by the average cost per click (the Keywords Everywhere plugin tool will tell you this when you look up the search volumes.)

Let’s say the average is $6 per click.

This means that the value of traffic per month is $1656 per month – if you were to pay Google (through Adwords) for the traffic.

This is just an estimate of course, and we are making assumptions, but it a valid way to get your head around what you’re actually paying for when it comes to SEO.

ROI Calculation #2: Projected closed deals

Now, the second method is to calculate it based on projected closed deals you get from your search engine traffic.

We’ll use the numbers from our first example and pretend 276 people visited the website. 5% of those people called your company and you closed them. Let’s say your inspections run $300 a pop. (Again, I am being very conservative across the board.)

We simply take 5% of 276, and multiply it by 300.

This means your traffic would be worth $4140 in new revenue to your business each month.

Conclusion

Those are the two strategies I use when explaining Return On Investment to business owners – and while neither are ever 100% accurate, they’ve proven to be viable enough to continue to use.

While tracking this stuff is a bit bloated, you can do the majority of it through Google Analytics.

The biggest factor in getting lots of internet leads is having a website that actually builds trust.

You need this before you do SEO – otherwise, you’re putting the cart before the horse. If you have a great SEO placement, but no one calls your business, you’ve just pissed away time or money getting there.

And worse? The changes you need to increase your “conversion rate” may drop you down in the search engines if they’re significant.

It’s why we have a premium training showiung home inspectors exactly what to add to their website, what pages to have and also how to structure it for future SEO potential.

The content we go over is “non developer” friendly, and is intended for inspectors that want to build their own SEO and “conversion” friendly website. Basically, a website that will actually turn a website browser into a customer. If you want to learn more, just click here.

Hope you got something from today’s post.

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Andrew is an SEO expert and digital marketing enthusiast. His knowledge of SEO coupled with his social work background makes him an excellent candidate to help YOU get to the top of your industry's search engine results pages.